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What if President Trump embraced the climate crisis as a way to assert an authoritarian regime? Mark Alan Hughes envisions a scenario where energy independence and anti-immigration policies are pursued in the name of climate protection.

In recent years, as energy prices in PJM have decreased, the portion of wholesale power costs associated with transmission has risen sharply. Turns out this negative correlation has been driven by policy and is not likely to continue.

A new study found that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas sector are about 60 percent higher than the EPA’s original estimates. With coal on the decline and natural gas on the rise, are we swapping one climate catastrophe for another?